•Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike Services were crippled at several general hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) today as private security guards staged fresh protests over unpaid salaries for four months, blocking entrances and preventing staff and patients from accessing the facilities. Operations at Nyanya, Zub...
•Stranded patients The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, descended into tension today as security guards attached to several government hospitals staged protests over non-payment of their wages for four months. The demonstrations broke out simultaneously at Nyanya, Zuba, and Kubwa General Hospitals, where the aggrieved guards barricaded ...
The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees in Rivers State has declared a seven-day warning strike over the alleged withholding of salaries of more than 500 workers in Emuoha Local Government Area. The affected workers had, last week, stormed the Emuoha council secretariat to protest the alleged removal of their names from the payroll, wh...
•ASUU members protest today University lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) today embarked on a nationwide protest to highlight what they described as the federal government’s persistent neglect of its long-standing demands. At the University of Jos, members of the union staged a demonstration before add...
•Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar At least 450 foreign service officers in 109 Nigerian missions abroad have yet to receive their salaries for the past five to six months. The officials, serving under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, are in financial distress and cannot pay rent and children’s school fees or meet other family [&hellip...
•Protesting medical doctors Doctors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) shut down medical services today over unpaid 7 months’ salaries to their colleagues employed in 2023. Our reporter who visited Kubwa General Hospital, this morning, witnessed how patients were told that they could not be attended to because doctors were on strike, repor...
•Maritime workers The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria has threatened to withdraw its services from the ports and jetties of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding fails to pay its members under their employment their nine-month salary areas. The union also warned of an impending industrial crisis in the maritime sector if the [...
•ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has reported the deaths of 84 of its members between May and August 2024, attributing these losses to economic hardship and unpaid salaries. ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, made this revelation during an appearance on Channels Television. “In the pa...
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